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Segment Information
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 30, 2023
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Segment Information Segment Information
 
The Company and its subsidiaries design, manufacture and sell component, modules and subassemblies to empower the long-term structural themes of sustainability, connectivity and safety. The Company reports its operations by the following segments: Electronics, Transportation, and Industrial. An operating segment is defined as a component of an enterprise that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses, and about which separate financial information is regularly evaluated by the Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”) in deciding how to allocate resources. The CODM is the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”). The CODM allocates resources to and assesses the performance of each operating segment using information about its revenue and operating income (loss) before interest and taxes, but does not evaluate the operating segments using discrete balance sheet information.
 
Sales, marketing, and research and development expenses are charged directly into each operating segment. Purchasing, logistics, customer service, finance, information technology, and human resources are shared functions that are allocated back to the three operating segments. The Company does not report inter-segment revenue because the operating segments do not record it.  Certain expenses, determined by the CODM to be strategic in nature and not directly related to segments current results, are not allocated but identified as “Other”. Additionally, the Company does not allocate interest and other income, interest expense, or taxes to operating segments. These costs are not allocated to the segments, as management excludes such costs when assessing the performance of the segments. Although the CODM uses operating income (loss) to evaluate the segments, operating costs included in one segment may benefit other segments. Except as discussed above, the accounting policies for segment reporting are the same as for the Company as a whole.

•Electronics Segment: Consists of one of the broadest product offerings in the industry, including fuses and fuse accessories, positive temperature coefficient (“PTC”) resettable fuses, electromechanical switches and interconnect solutions, polymer electrostatic discharge (“ESD”) suppressors, varistors, reed switch based magnetic sensing, gas discharge tubes; semiconductor products such as discrete transient voltage suppressor (“TVS”) diodes, TVS diode arrays, protection and switching thyristors, silicon and silicon carbide metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (“MOSFETs”) and diodes; and insulated gate bipolar transistors (“IGBT”) technologies. The segment covers a broad range of end markets, including industrial motor drives and power conversion, automotive electronics, electric vehicle and related charging infrastructure, aerospace, power supplies, data centers and telecommunications, medical devices, alternative energy and energy storage, building and home automation, appliances, and mobile electronics.
•Transportation Segment: Consists of a wide range of circuit protection, power control and sensing technologies for global original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”), Tier-one suppliers and parts and aftermarket distributors in passenger vehicle, heavy-duty truck and bus, off-road and recreational vehicles, material handling equipment, agricultural machinery, construction equipment and other commercial vehicle end markets. Passenger vehicle products are used in internal combustion engine, hybrid and electric vehicles including blade fuses, battery cable protectors, resettable fuses, high-current fuses, high-voltage fuses, and sensor products designed to monitor the occupant’s safety and environment as well as the vehicle’s powertrain. Commercial vehicle products include fuses, switches, circuit breakers, relays, and power distribution modules and units used in applications serving a number of end markets, including heavy-duty truck and bus, construction, agriculture, material handling and marine.

•Industrial Segment: Consists of industrial circuit protection (industrial fuses), industrial controls (protection relays, contactors, transformers, residual current devices, ground fault circuit interrupters, residual current monitors, and arc fault detection devices) and temperature sensors for use in various applications such as renewable energy and energy storage systems, industrial safety, factory automation, electric vehicle infrastructure, HVAC systems, non-residential construction, MRO, and mining.

The Company has provided this segment information for all comparable prior periods. Segment information is summarized as follows:
 
(in thousands)
202320222021
Net sales   
Electronics$1,350,426 $1,492,819 $1,300,744 
Transportation678,278 716,140 528,058 
Industrial333,953 304,938 251,126 
Total net sales$2,362,657 $2,513,897 $2,079,928 
Depreciation and amortization
Electronics$79,345 $68,195 $61,512 
Transportation42,514 43,756 29,015 
Industrial15,569 8,755 8,108 
Total depreciation and amortization$137,428 $120,706 $98,635 
Operating income (loss)
Electronics$300,581 $431,616 $309,633 
Transportation33,634 63,539 65,979 
Industrial54,800 48,853 22,621 
Other(a)
(28,153)(43,182)(12,591)
Total operating income360,862 500,826 385,642 
Interest expense39,866 26,216 18,527 
Foreign exchange loss12,299 24,359 17,158 
Other (income) expense, net(19,901)7,207 8,932 
Income before income taxes$328,598 $443,044 $341,025 

(a) Included in “Other” Operating income for the 2023 was $11.7 million of legal and professional fees and other integration expenses related to completed and contemplated acquisitions, and $11.6 million of restructuring charges, primarily related to employee termination costs. During 2023, the Company recognized a $3.9 million impairment charge related to the land and building in the commercial vehicle business within the Transportation segment, $0.9 million impairment charge substantially related to certain patents in a business within the Industrial segment, and a $0.1 million impairment related to certain machinery and equipment in the semiconductor business within the Electronics segment. See Note 8, Restructuring, Impairment and Other Charges, for further discussion.
Included in “Other” Operating income for 2022 was $17.6 million of legal and professional fees and other integration expenses related to completed and contemplated acquisitions, $15.6 million of purchase accounting inventory step-up charges, and $10.0 million of restructuring, impairment and other charges, primarily related to employee termination costs and a $2.9 million non-cash impairment charge for certain acquired technology and patent intangible assets due to a change in use and projected cash flows within the Electronics segment in the fourth quarter of 2022. See Note 8, Restructuring, Impairment and Other Charges, for further discussion.

Included in “Other” Operating income for 2021 was $8.4 million of purchase accounting inventory step-up charges, $7.0 million of legal and professional fees and other integration expenses related to Carling, Hartland and other contemplated acquisitions, and $10.0 million of restructuring, impairment and other charges, primarily related to employee termination costs. See Note 8, Restructuring, Impairment and Other Charges, for further discussion. In addition, there was a gain of $5.0 million recorded for the sale of buildings within the Electronics segment.

The Company’s net sales, long-lived assets and additions to long-lived assets by country for the fiscal years ended 2023, 2022, and 2021 are as follows:
 
(in thousands)
202320222021
Net sales   
U.S.$820,735 $912,498 $639,381 
China546,786 638,978 620,211 
Other countries(a)
995,136 962,421 820,336 
Total net sales$2,362,657 $2,513,897 $2,079,928 
Long-lived assets
U.S.$73,126 $76,325 $57,923 
China139,736 129,094 122,867 
Mexico102,218 107,119 107,283 
Germany47,217 39,635 39,055 
Philippines73,217 77,240 74,918 
Other countries57,639 51,697 35,843 
Total long-lived assets$493,153 $481,110 $437,889 
Additions to long-lived assets
U.S.$9,502 $14,603 $7,690 
China32,805 35,297 26,396 
Mexico13,920 26,514 28,707 
Germany10,279 5,255 8,519 
Philippines6,156 14,847 19,342 
Other countries10,992 7,678 5,654 
Total additions to long-lived assets$83,654 $104,194 $96,308 

(a)Each country included in other countries are less than 10% of net sales.
 
For the year ended December 30, 2023, approximately 65% of the Company’s net sales were to customers outside the U.S. (exports and foreign operations), including approximately 23% to China. For the year ended December 31, 2022, approximately 64% of the Company's net sales were to customers outside the U.S. (exports and foreign operations), including approximately 25% to China. For the year ended January 1, 2022, approximately 69% of the Company's net sales were to customers outside the U.S. (exports and foreign operations), including approximately 30% to China. Sales to Arrow Electronics, Inc., which were included in the Electronics, Transportation, and Industrial segments, were 11.2%, 11.5%, and 10.7% of consolidated net sales in 2023, 2022, and 2021 respectively. No other single customer accounted for more than 10% of net sales during the last three years.